Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Difficulty shows what men are.

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.” 

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.” 

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.” 

“Your brain is wider than the sky” 

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.” 

“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.” 

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ” 

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.

Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

"It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.” 

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity."

“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.” 

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”