Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Too bad we don't have a flashlight." "Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.