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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.