We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life

For a great life a road map of life is more important than the journey itself.

If you don't have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.

Take things as they are Punch when you have to punch Kick when you have to kick

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.

I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The world is made of stairs and there are those who go up and those who go down