Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

All great achievements require time.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

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

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

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.