To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick - to - itiveness; third, common sense.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.

Same result, only I'd be steam - cooked instead of roasted.

It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next.

Little things please little minds.

Knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

Don't judge what you don't know.

She wanted us to see that life could be good, if we looked around at the world instead of within ourselves.

All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be.

Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

I think Zar learned his lesson. Once burned, twice reserved. Hmf. Once laid down, always hungry would be a better saying for this case.

Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is the highest form of wisdom. I made a broad gesture. Today the sun is shining and...

What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai? It is his mind, Elder Brother, I said.

The boy heaved a sigh. I would ask to go with you, he said, but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any...

According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three...

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be...

A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

Although they are often ready to play the fool to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that...

...you gotta go there to know there.

I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.