Intelligence is a moral category.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
Wisdom begins at the end.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.