There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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.

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

Praying is learned by praying.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.