So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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.

Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.