O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

In another life, I would be your belle

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.