Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

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.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.