The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.

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.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual…

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.