It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.

Choose God’s way of and choose the things that God chooses. His choices are the best

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.