Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.