Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
I think, therefore I am.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
All great achievements require time.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.