It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.