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

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

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

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

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.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.