There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

If you are young and you drink a great deal, it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

I had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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