Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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 dance you take with passion and self belief While every step is in rhythm with the honor of your words and the integrity of your daily actions~bns

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Whoever, however close to me you may be. Nobody can change my emotions. Even if I am sad it's my own problem, not somebody else's.

What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.