A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

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

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

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

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

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

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.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.