To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Without repentance, there is no remission of sins.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.