Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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.

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Embrace love while you have life.

There have been other girls. But they weren't her.

I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

I want to live quietly.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'