A significant milestone in life is achieved when you learn to be your own best friend.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.