Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

To those who value words of affirmation, criticism feels like a knife in the heart.

There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

That last guy hit me awfully hard.

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

Let's all start walking more and driving less.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.