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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

A precedent embalms a principle.