It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.