Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Humility is attentive patience.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.