Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

While there's life, there's hope.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.