Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.