Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character, it just matters what you do with it.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll kip resentment far away.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is fearless.

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.

Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.

Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Do something which arouses happiness in your own bones.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Do not compare yourself to others. if you do so you are insulting yourself.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.