Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.