If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

What can't be cured must be endured.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.