“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Kindness is stronger than fear.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.