Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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

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

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

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

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

The lie is a condition of life.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Resist much. Obey little.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.