Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

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

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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.

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

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

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

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

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

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.