We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.