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.

The lie is a condition of life.

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.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

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

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

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.