The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.