Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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 ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

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

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.