Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.