Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

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.

Resist much. Obey little.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.