It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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 your content is good, your career just started.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Confess and be hanged.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.