It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

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.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.