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

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

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.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.