The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.