Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.