Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword. You can’t feel a battle in your bones or foresee a fight.
Better a humble house than none. A man is master at home. A pair of goats and a patched roof are better than begging.
A bad friend is far away though his cottage is close. To a true friend lies a trodden road though his farm lies far away
The traveller must
train his wits.
All is easy at home.
He who knows little
is a laughing-stock
amongst the men of the world.
Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself die; I know one thing which never dies: the judgment of a dead man's life.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.
I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
You can do anything, but not everything.