Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The lie is a condition of life.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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!

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.