The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.