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

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The lie is a condition of life.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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