The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens