Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.