A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.

Love rekindles the soul of every man.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

A true leader inspires by being among the people, not above them.

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.