Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.