If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.