Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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

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

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.