The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

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

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.