Friends are thieves of time.

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.

You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

We'll be together. We both got our Point Zéro wishes — each other. He said he wished for me every time. He was wishing for me when I entered the tower.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.