I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Kahlil Gibran

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil Gibran

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Kahlil Gibran

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George Carlin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
Muhammad Ali