Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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 death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be.

A man makes choices, ” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

not all thoughts have to become words!

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.