The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.