Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

My body is not a temple. It’s a skip,

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.