If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Do nothing immoderate.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Suffering is not a consequence, it is about permission.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.