To laugh is proper to man.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.