Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Criticize the act, not the person.