Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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.

Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.