You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.