Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.