The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If you feel besieged by life today, lean on the God of peace - the God of hope and the future. The same God who has a plan for Israel has a plan for you. Trust that He will direct your path.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

You can't predict the future, but you can follow your dreams.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.