Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Time wounds all heels.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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