No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

When your mind cannot find its way out of its current spectrum of reality, your heart will always guide you along the the path you are seeking. Trust it.

And then eventually you wake up, fully rested, ready to fly again :)

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.

My girlfriend wants to get married. I tell you - I hope she meets somebody nice.

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.