Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

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

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.