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.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.