Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Desire is the very essence of man.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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'.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.