Time is the author of authors.

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.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

When you love more than you receive, you create a positive vibe that enhances the beauty of this earth.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'