“Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.”

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.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says ‘no.’

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.

Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.

Great things are won by great dangers.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.