There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
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.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.