Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

The middle course is the best.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Be superior to pleasure.

Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

I found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.