When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Think globally, act locally.

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.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.