The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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.

Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success.

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.