I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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.

Life must not be lived only to make money.

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

Everyone wants to be clothed but no one wants to be stripped.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.