The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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.

We’ll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the love in my life.

I just like to do different parts.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

I do not want to carry any public position.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.