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

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The lie is a condition of life.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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