Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.