Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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 politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Art is much, but love is more.

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.