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.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Don't fight the system, mock the system

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Close your eyes and let music set you free.

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.