Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Think globally, act locally.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.