What's done can't be undone.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.