Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.