Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

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

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

The decision can’t alone be mine, While the chalice is still full of wine

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.