To overvalue something is a form of lying.

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.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Paradise will be a kind of library

Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

I pride myself on being a Legend Killer.