Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
