I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

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

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.