Wisdom

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

...People with nothing to declare carry the most.

Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.So I'm never quite sure why we eat turkey like everybody else.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick.

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.

If someone gives you tough situation, it's better to make a distance.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

The essence of all things determines souls that are fit to send messages for their kinds.

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!

Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.