I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Once you label me you negate me.

An idea is salvation by imagination

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Freedom is from within.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.