Words worth keeping

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Angry people are not always wise.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.