A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.