For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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 there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to lover her.

If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.