Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.