We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Life well spent is long.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Imagination decides everything.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I’m not very articulate.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A great man is always willing to be little.

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.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.