I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
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.