The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

Your success is hidden in the quality of your decisions and the consistency of your actions.

a pattern of wise choices in the ordinary paves the road to a demonstration of wisdom in the extraordinary.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

A person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.

The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.