Appearances often are deceiving.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

All great achievements require time.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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

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.