Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.