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

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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

Be curious, not judgmental.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.