Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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!

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

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

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.