He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.