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

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

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

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

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

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

I think, therefore I am.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

What's done can't be undone.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.