The cure for pain is in the pain.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
