Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

There is no sin except stupidity.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Enemies are so stimulating.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Our God is a forgiving God.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Change alone is unchanging.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.