My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Never practice two vices at once.

Never practice two vices at once.

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the read more

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.