As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.