Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.