Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are on entirely different levels.

What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.