One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The stars of heaven gives light.

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . .

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

When companies start out, they figure out a better way to do something, and they're very relevant.

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.