The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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.

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

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.