If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
We accept the love we think we deserve.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.