The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something!
Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.
Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.
Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more than a minor scribe unless he has read the great book.
Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again.
It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.
The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
People stop thinking when they cease to read.
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Life is but a series of misunderstandings.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.