It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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 life goes on doesn’t it just trample over what was there before?

I'm a bit of a workaholic.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.