“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.”

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don’t you agree?

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The word enough doesn’t exist inside our minds when it comes on achieving and receiving for our pleasure.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

I believe that the mind is the last planet that’s left unexplored – Achieving the universal or cosmic consciousness is the highest goal to mankind.

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.