Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.