Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Be curious, not judgmental.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.