We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law