In life, you have two choices: Do you control your life… or not? Are you the driver or the passenger? Do you make stuff happen, or let stuff to happen?

We ought to be inquisitive without feeling like rebellious children because greatness sprouts out of an inquisitive mind

For the applause of the masses, those with caged minds find themselves compromising things that matter most to please people who matter least

You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences must be like an addiction, the all-determining addiction of his life, for it would stand so clearly before his eyes that disappointment is not a hot, destroying poison, but rather a cool calming balm that opens our eyes to the real contours of ourselves.