In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
A friend to all is a friend to none
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
