It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?