Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Every new architecture is just a reimagination and a readaptation of an idea that was floating around for decades.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Imagination is more important than knowledge
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
The best revenge is massive success.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Where there is love there is life.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Law is mind without reason.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
War does not determine who is right; only who is left.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Common sense is not so common.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way; you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Now it is not the end. Not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
A friend is a second self.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.