We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.