“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”

Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Vices are their own punishment.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.