Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.