The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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.

It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?.

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.