There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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.

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

The mission of the church is missions.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

Was ever poet so trusted before?