Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

A precedent embalms a principle.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

For we walk by faith, not by sight