Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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.

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

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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

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

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The lie is a condition of life.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.