Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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.