It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

The readiness is all.