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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

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.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.