The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

I can be a cruel person.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

For me, education was power.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Find people who will make you better.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I already am a product.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Sin is geographical.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.