Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.