Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.