We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves.

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

You can t let praise or criticism get to you It s a weakness to get caught up in either one

Don t try to be useful Try to be yourself: that is enough and that makes all the difference

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

If you must speak ill of another do not speak it write it in the sand near the water s edge

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows.

Talent is God given Be humble Fame is man-given Be grateful Conceit is self-given Be careful

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?