The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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.

Life is always sweet on the positive lane, but you must give it a try and a try and a try for however long it would take to find out.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.