Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

You carry God, hence you have a worth.

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.

Absolutely without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 American troops deployed overseas we now have 15,000.

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.