Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

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.

By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

I hate flying. I'm not a big fan of flying at all so everywhere I go I go by tour bus. If I have to fly I will but I'm not a big fan of it.

Needs are the expression of life through us.

Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise