Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Before desiring for more success in your life, try to at least be grateful with your current blessings. Being in good health is more than enough to be thankful.

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.