Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

Without analysis, no synthesis.

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

Work honestly and build, build, build. That's all I can tell you.

The best Web sites are better than Reality.

Love never goes away; it just changes form.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.