One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
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.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
