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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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