Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Time wounds all heels.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.