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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.