Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.