There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Time wounds all heels.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.