A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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.

Dogs have their day but cats have 365.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.