For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears. |

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. |

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. |

Life is not fair, get used to it. |

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. |

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. |

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. |

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. |

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. |

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. |

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution. |

Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance. |

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to. |

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. |

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. |

Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry. |

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. |

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell. |

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. (...) I love you for the part of me that you bring out. |

You're something between a dream and a miracle. |

Tending the garden is a relaxing pastime, but it does not prepare one for the inevitable battles of life. It is easy to be calm in a serene setting.
To be calm and serene when under attack is much more difficult; therefore, I tell you that it is far better to be a warrior tending his garden rather than a gardener at war. |

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. |

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. |