If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.