Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

For we walk by faith, not by sight

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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