If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The lie is a condition of life.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

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.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

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.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.