Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

Nobody is better than me.

No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.

Too many people are quick to dream big, but slow to act on it.

I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.