Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

What's done can't be undone.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.