We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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.

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

Without the patient, there is no healthcare.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

Kindness is always fashionable.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.