Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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.

All great achievements require time.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

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

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The lie is a condition of life.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

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.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.