Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

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.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.