The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love.
Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.
A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.
Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.
The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
An archer must never blame a target for missing it.
At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.
Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.
Don’t let anger control you.Don’t let hate enslave you.
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.
It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.
If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.
Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.
If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.
The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.