Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The lie is a condition of life.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.