A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

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

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

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

The lie is a condition of life.

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.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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.

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

What's done can't be undone.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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