One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.