Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Time wounds all heels.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.