There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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.

Girls with poison necklacesto save themselves from torture.Just as women wear amuletswhich hold their rolled up fortunestranscribed on ola leaf.

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.