wisdom
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“To have faith means to dare, to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible.”
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules.”
“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”
“Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.”