Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

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

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

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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.

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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.