A precedent embalms a principle.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.