The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.