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“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.”
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
“The friendship that can cease has never been real. ”
“Where law ends, tyranny begins.”
“And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“Learn to sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
“Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.”
“In my mind's eye.”
“Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.”
“We don't want that much failure.”
“Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
“If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.”
“Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.”
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