The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
I think, therefore I am.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.