Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.