There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

You are the land. The land is you.

And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.