Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.