Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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.
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'.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Wisdom begins at the end.