The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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.

Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life

O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.

My hair is too fine to bleach. I get so much breakage, it's not worth it to dye it.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.