“Pride isn’t the opposite of shame, it’s the source.”

“When a man is broken, he either remains permanently broken or he emerges ten times stronger. Each day, you have to decide which of those two you want to be.”

“The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain.”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

“The potter is envious of the potter, the artisan of the artisan, the poor man even of the poor man, the musician of the musician, the poet of the poet.”

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

“Everything worth saying may have been said before, but given that nobody was listening, it must be said again.”

“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

“In fact, kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.”

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

“Ne te quaesiveris extra.”

“If you can’t write clearly, it is my opinion that you don’t think very clearly.”

“True bravery is the subjugation of our passions by reason."

“Would you rather be the world’s worst lover and known as the best, or the world’s best lover and known as the worst?”

“Men lie, women lie, children lie, and we lie to ourselves, but energy, my friend, energy never lies.”

"I cannot, in good faith, keep this Bible on my nightstand and judge another man at the same time."

“…a science which, like all moral sciences, has not even been wrapped in swaddling-clothes yet.”

“The hardest thing is to forgive and God does.”

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

“There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”