Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

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

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

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!

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Wisdom begins at the end.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.