He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care