The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.