The only real laughter comes from despair.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
