Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
