For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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.

We crave real people and are delighted when we find them.

Trust the Lord to help you fully commit yourself to His service

A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.

You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

When a customer asks what no one else has ever asked, pay close attention.