They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

I knew it was all or nothing.

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

You can learn from everybody.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.