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.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

The lie is a condition of life.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.