If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.
Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.
When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Man is what he believes.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.
History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
