He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.