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

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.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

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

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

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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

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.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously