Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what youve always got.
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.
Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.
If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.
And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.