One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

What's done can't be undone.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Intelligence is a moral category.