We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

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

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Think globally, act locally.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

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.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact