Judge not unless you judge yourself.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Appearances often are deceiving.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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