A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

Do nothing immoderate.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Creativity is encountering something unexpected

There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!

Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

I've always had good friends and people know that I've got no ax to grind.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.