Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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

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

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

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