You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.