Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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.

Since when, " he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

Love is the life of friendship.

I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.