Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Resist much. Obey little.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.