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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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

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

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.