Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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.

You are not who you think you are.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.