There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

What's done can't be undone.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I think, therefore I am.

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

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.