The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If you're really paying attention you could have your heart broken twelve times a day. Most of the time we aren't looking.
Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.
Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.