It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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.

Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep.

When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.