Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've stood up on the stage and given your speech about the healing power of fiction.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brothers girlfriends.

Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.

Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.