Time is the greatest innovator.

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.

We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?""I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything.

A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.