Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls