You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Time wounds all heels.

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

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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

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

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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

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

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.