It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

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.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Resist much. Obey little.