Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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.

The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

All governments require enemy governments.

I really don't want to in the press, genuinely don't want to be in the press.

People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.