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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

What's done can't be undone.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

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

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.