All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.

All this for two bad lines he could’ve gotten out of a fortune cookie?

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

Raise boys and girls the same way.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

Stand tall, laugh loudly, and be who you truly are