Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Time wounds all heels.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

The only real laughter comes from despair.