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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

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

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

What's done can't be undone.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.