Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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.