Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think

 not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The best way out is always through.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

We boil at different degrees.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.