Every quote, in one place.

“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”

“Create each day anew.”

“The greatness of a society can be judged by the way it treats its weakest member.”

“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.”

“Failure is the path of lease persistence.”

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them. ”

“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

“When asked, how do you write? I invariably answer, one word at a time.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“Loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.”

“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”

“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”

“The wise accomplish all that they want without arousing the envy or scorn of others.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

“Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.”

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”