We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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.

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 is better to be looked over than overlooked.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.