The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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.

There is a beastwithin my heart.She plays immaculately with the beauty in my soul.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.

I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.