Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.