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.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
What can't be cured must be endured.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
