If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action