Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

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 only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.