A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.