It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.

It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

The beginning is half of every action.

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Gray hair is a sign of age not of wisdom.

It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

Money wants no followers.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.