To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.