Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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.

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

Never allow yourself to be defined by some else's opinion of you....unless they hold a higher opinion of you than you have for yourself.

A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.