The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.

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.

When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

Don't treat good guys like you treat bad guys.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.