No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

You don’t buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before...

No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. […] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues goodness. It is only at the tree laden with fruit that men throw...

Don’t destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won’t have any other option than...

He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands....

Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the...

Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Once you have money and fame, the next thing you should expect is scandal and shame.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.