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

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.