The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me “I love you.” There is an African saying which is: “Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
African proverb
People don’t turn down money. It’s what separates us from the animals.
Jerry Seinfeld
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do
Carl Jung
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Shelley
We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Thomas Jefferson
It is a dangerous thing to assume speaking without thinking is the same as speaking the truth.
Benoit Blanc
If you try and change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Lao Tzu