Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

If you would judge, understand.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I am not young enough to know everything.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Nature is not human hearted.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Information is not knowledge.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.