“A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Think positively, no matter how hard life is.

Where there is haste, there must be mistake.

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude.

People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.