Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
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.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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.
Wisdom begins at the end.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
