All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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

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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Time wounds all heels.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Resist much. Obey little.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

What can't be cured must be endured.