Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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.

They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it

Rome was not built in a day.

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.