Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

What's done can't be undone.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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!

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.