Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many 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.

A prototype is a question embodied

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

I like Cilantro, but you don't have to.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.