The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment.

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.