I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it’s a sign that I’m moving up the ladder.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing...

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids’ parties for about three years.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from...

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea...

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very...