“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Study the past if you would define the future.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.