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

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

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Time wounds all heels.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

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.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls