“If you don’t want to do something,don’t impose on others.”

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.

The funniest people are the saddest ones.

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not. Are both correct.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Behind every smile there’s teeth.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I know you’ve been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

I am not here to be right.