A violent order is disorder

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?