Great changes are easier than small ones.

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.

I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

I was in a convent for a year.

We are the environment.

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

I always believe in facts.

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.