Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Kahlil Gibran

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Kahlil Gibran

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

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

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi