Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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.

Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.