He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Resist much. Obey little.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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.

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

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

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.