All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have.

The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it’s a duty preceding been an honour.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

Anger without power is folly.

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.