It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.