A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
A man is literally what he thinks.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
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?
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.