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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

A precedent embalms a principle.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.