If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
