Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.