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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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!

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.