Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
Intelligence is a moral category.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.