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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

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

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.