Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The way you react in times of challenges will determine whether your challenges will weigh you down, or you will overthrow them.

What's a Laster? A dead man.

When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.