In charity there is no excess.

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.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Beauty identifies by face, but justifies by only heart.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.