In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
What's done can't be undone.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.