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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.