Never eat more than you can lift.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.