He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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.

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.

Boredom has always been a problem.

Character is more important than talent.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.