Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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

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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.