Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.