Most arguments are useless.

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.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

No matter where I am on this planet, I am always safe.

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.