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

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

A precedent embalms a principle.