A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I think, therefore I am.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.