Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Time wounds all heels.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.