Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena. . . long before the lights come up.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks linguistically, it thinks in a temporarily extended way, so it for example, might go through the steps of an argument chain, as if you were going through a syllogism and seeing that something followed from the premises, whereas intellect simply grasps the forms.
A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.
Smile. Be open and welcoming.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?