Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.

Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey—the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.