To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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

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.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.