Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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

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

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.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.