You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe, until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind.

Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.

Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Testimonials describe what has been, and are a promise of what is to come.