They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

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.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

I had always been proud of my body - its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.