At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

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.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

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

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The lie is a condition of life.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy