It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

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.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

People are just so stupid.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.

Does your mother know that you're carrying a gun? I'm going to tell her. I'm going to call and tell her right now." Joe Morelli's mom

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.