Inspirational Sayings

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.

We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot.

We must reform our antiquated customs and adopt the strengths of foreign nations.

Scepticism is the freedom which thought achieves in itself.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Man is a useless passion.

The most marvelous thing about writing is that it allows you to be alone with your thoughts, without being lonely.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

China needs more soldiers and fewer poets.

I am part of all that I have met.

We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so.

The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error.