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

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.