We never see ourselves as others see us.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Criticize the act, not the person.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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