He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

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.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The cure for pain is in the pain.