Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.