Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

I tend to stay healthy because Ive been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when youre healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.