Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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.

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Until you try to fly, you will never know how high you can soar.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.