There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

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.

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

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

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.