Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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.

Your heart can break at any age.

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning.

No other version no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.

What once were vices are now manners.

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

You don't have to be sick to get better.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.