Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.

It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.