Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.