No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

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