There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Well begun is half done.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Be like water, my friend.
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands – the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
No great thing is created suddenly.