As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

You just think that your future or you intend to devote yourself to the humanity. The choice is in your hands

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.