"I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me."

"Come away,O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand"

"The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: 'some do, some don't."

"[Advise] the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish -- that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates."

"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."

"When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."

"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate."

"Experience without learning is better than learning without experience."

"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."

"Who you are moment to moment is just a story."

"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."