Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.