It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.