It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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.

Like the waves in the ocean, life changes every moment.

never try to understand a girl: either you go crazy or fall in love with her.

when you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.