There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
No social stability without individual stability.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.