Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
I think, therefore I am.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character