Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.