When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

to live at all is to be bruised

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.