Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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.

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.