Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.