When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work

One "no" averts seventy evils

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved

An arch never sleeps.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun