Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.