Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

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

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

All great achievements require time.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.