Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Criticize the act, not the person.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

A man is literally what he thinks.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.