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

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!

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Wisdom begins at the end.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.