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.

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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.