The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

All great achievements require time.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

What's done can't be undone.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.