The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously