Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.