There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.