An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I think, therefore I am.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Desire is the very essence of man.