Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never. |

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. |

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. |

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. |

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. |

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. |

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. |

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |

When written in Chinese, the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. |

You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant. |

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. |

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. |

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. |

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. |

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. |

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. |

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. |

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. |

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. |

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. |

The problem with reading: you always have to pick up again at the very thing that made you stop reading the day before. |

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. |

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. |

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. |