Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Think globally, act locally.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.