Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.