Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

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.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.