If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.