The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.