But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.