Nothing is as easy as it looks.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.