In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
