Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
What's done can't be undone.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.