He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.