He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

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

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.