If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Be curious, not judgmental.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are