Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.