“Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.”

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Anything forced is not beautiful.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.

We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.

I am a stranger in all countries.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don’t believe in that either.

I’m not looking for perfect just something worth believing in.

You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?

Never kiss anyone who doesn’t believe in poetry.