I would live to study, not study to live.

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.

Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

Whatever it takes to break you.