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

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

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

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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

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

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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'.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.