Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Love Is How You Dress

Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.

You are what you believe as expressed by what you do

I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.