If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme.

Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.