In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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 it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

What was God doing before the divine creation?