Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

What's done can't be undone.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

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.

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

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.