All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

How awesome is the awe God!

The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

Children and fooles speake true.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.