What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Believe nothing and be on guard against everything.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.

All useful work is accomplished by individuals who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and all they are willing to endure.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

In primitive society, when natives beat the ground and yelled, it was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf.