Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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.

No one escapes from life alive.

Problems don’t get fixed by ignoring them. Putting them off ultimately does more harm than good – all it does is waste time and burden us with stress.

To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

Don't confuse your grief with guilt.