Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.