An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

A precedent embalms a principle.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.