Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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.

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.