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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.