There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.
Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
I do not pilfer victory.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The risk of insult is the price of clarity.
People stop thinking when they cease to read.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.