Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.