I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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.

Marriage is a mutual faithful friendship

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

It's true that the pain makes people change

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.