I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

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.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

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

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.