Humankind can't stand too much reality.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Speech is silvern silence is golden.

I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles!

It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

I've bashed my body for 30 years and I've just got to eat properly and not drink too much - very difficult!

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.