All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

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

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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