As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Resist much. Obey little.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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

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