The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
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.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.