Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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 best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Right mothering meets the child’s need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.