Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity

Without the nourishment of the soul, there is no strength of spirit.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.