It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.