If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.