“It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.”

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 tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.

But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.

Cold is the counsel of women.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.