The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Appearances often are deceiving.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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.

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

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.