When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

If you say something, then it exposes you.