No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.