There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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'.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.