A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.
If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the window...
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!
The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure...