Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

The aeroplane will never fly.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.