The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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.

If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice

Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings.

I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You find happiness where you find it.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I'm through with you." Bella: "Only because they're afraid you'll suck their blood.