Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.