It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
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.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.