He knows the universe and does not know himself.

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.

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

I love the pleasure of reading poetry.

Forgive the past to welcome the future.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

What does your attitude proclaim to the world about you today? It is never to late to change your story, start by changing your thoughts and pay attention to your attitude.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."