The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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.

Soul is soul.

Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.