The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

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

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.