To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
He realized. . . that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
You spend the first part of your life collecting things. . . and the second half getting rid of them.
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape. . . . For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.