I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.