Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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 needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York... New York..." New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander

... You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

My kid could move like a lightweight

The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know, because of the big explosion. You'll like it. It's a nice album.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.