You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

A man is literally what he thinks.