Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

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

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

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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