I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.