You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
All great achievements require time.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.