The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!

Emotion is the unseen transported on the unseen effecting everything".

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.