Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.