What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

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

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.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

A precedent embalms a principle.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.