It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

The lie is a condition of life.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

A precedent embalms a principle.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

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

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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.