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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

A room without books is a body without soul

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.