The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
The day of individual happiness has passed
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
