To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Collective will supplants individual whim

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.