Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink