Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

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

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

A precedent embalms a principle.