If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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

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

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.