All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.