Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Intelligence is a moral category.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.