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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

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

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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