If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

First you have to help yourself.

When you're through learning, you're through.