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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.