There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.