Always play like an underdog.
If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Give, even if you only have little.
The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead – and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
