The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.