Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.