The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.