There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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

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.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.