Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Resist much. Obey little.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

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

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.