Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
