It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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.

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.