Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

The object of the superior man is truth.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.