Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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

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.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Compassion is the basis of morality.

A friend to all is a friend to none

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.