Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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.

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

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.