Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

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.

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.