In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.