Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.