Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.