The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Time wounds all heels.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.