It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The lie is a condition of life.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.