The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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.

They heard a lullaby every time a part of her died in Silence.

nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you.

You shouldn't need an excuse or a way to ease out.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

I got caught kissing my dad's ex-girlfriend - at his wedding!

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.