Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.