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

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

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

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.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.