If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

When you make a commitment to live a life of bliss, everyday is an opportunity to live the dream awake.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.