Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

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.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of human existence.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

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

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

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

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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!

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.