Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

The lie is a condition of life.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.