The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
The lie is a condition of life.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.