When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Dear lover, pull my ears and not my legs for it is better to be cautioned than to be lied to.

Fear in the absence of certainty can inspire men to do unimaginable things.

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.

The rogue has suffered much. He needs someone to remind him of why he once believed in a good path...

Caring is not bossing somebody around

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Good things are not necessarily God things.

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.