There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
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.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
