Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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.

If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.

...the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find.

Killing time takes practice.

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television