What's done can't be undone.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
A precedent embalms a principle.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.