If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

No man should be angry with what is true.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.