Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

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

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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