God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.