The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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.

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

To pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get dirty.

It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.