It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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.

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.