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

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

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

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.