Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!