The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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.

When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.

Walking in the path of light is heavenly paradise.

A man without mind brings ecstasy!

Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

It's a weird age. They're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still don't know whether to be like, 'Congratulations,' or 'Do you need a ride?

We are all born marked for evil.

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.