You always admire what you really don't understand.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.