Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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.

Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.