The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong in the broken places.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Into each life some rain must fall.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing, and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

A person free to choose will always choose peace.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Things are not quite as simple always as black and white.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

From a small seed, a mighty trunk may grow.

People fall forward to success.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Home is the nicest word there is.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Leadership is influence.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Where there is love there is life.