Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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.

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

You can't do anything about yesterday tomorrow

What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.