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.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

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

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

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.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.