Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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.

absolute equality not possible . what is possible, we can honour the qualities in each person .that would reduce this gap

It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.

Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.