Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust we shall return.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.