Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Think globally, act locally.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.