Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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.

Resist much. Obey little.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.