The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.