Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
What's done can't be undone.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.