Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.