Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
