If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you're in and live your life to the fullest.

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.