We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.