Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart.

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.