Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.

The truly important people in our lives are always in our future.

I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger.

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.