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.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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.

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

We never see ourselves as others see us.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.