The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Think globally, act locally.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

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

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.