Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Why did you give up hope?

Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

I think the most important is believing in yourself and being passionate about everything you do in life.

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.