The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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.

If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.

With Eyes Like Charles Manson, a life similar to H.P Lovecraft, and lyrics like Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Cobain was the master of horror in music.

I can never understand someone by his strengths. Nothing is revealed there. I can only understand people by their weaknesses.

Come on, " I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

Maybe more businesses should allow time for recess.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself.

My life is basically my work.