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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
