Be wiser than other people if you can

DaleCarnegie

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One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of yo

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The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than w

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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conv

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All is mystery

BenjaminDisraeli

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend

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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

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I think, therefore I'll think.

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A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the c

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Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thin

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opi

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As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow use

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, prec

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Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don

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Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the ris

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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