A friend to all is a friend to none
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
The lie is a condition of life.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
