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

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.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

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

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.