Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up.

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.