Nogle gange ønsker folk ikke at høre sandheden, fordi de ikke vil have deres illusioner ødelagt.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.