Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

What are problems to a man who strongly believes there are effective solutions to all problems?

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

But if you loved me Why'd you leave me?

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.