Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The lie is a condition of life.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
A man is literally what he thinks.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
