The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

You may not need to tell me, I can hear your song better when your voice is silent and your heart is singing.

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

When you own something, you can call it what you want.

I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.