Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

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

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.