Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. They can — and should — be used in tandem. Either alone is death by overdose. Balance.

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

Education is the only solution. Education first.

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.

I'm a terrible trumpet player...