Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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'.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.