The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Criticize the act, not the person.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.