The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.