How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.