Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
A life spent making mistakes is not only honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.