“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.”

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.

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Leap and the net will appear.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Everything transitory is but an image.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

Most of the reasons people think they can’t do something are reasons they’ve created.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth.

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.