One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

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.

Age isn't stealing from my grandmother

Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish

He who runs from a challenge runs from an opportunity.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.