Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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

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

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.