The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Happy the man who knows his duties!
If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.
Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rebelais, a great Perhaps.
Faith is ... knowing with your heart.
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.