When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
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.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
