Oneself Quotes

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I’m having as much fun with it as possible.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

With will one can do anything.

I’m not a big proponent of happiness. I think it’s highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There’s so much value in that. You can’t have one without the other.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.