If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.