The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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.

If you are capable, but not available, nature will raise a person with lesser ability to replace you soon.

Strength is not only about winning the game

Sometimes, ” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.

You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.