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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.