Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.