Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

A man is literally what he thinks.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

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.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.