“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence”

“A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn’t make sense.”