Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

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

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

All limitations are self-imposed.