A god could hardly love and be wise.

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.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.