The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?

It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness.

I put the bra in brand, and I top it!

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

He [Beckham] has two feet, which a lot of players don't have nowadays.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.