Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Frankie, " she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.

No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.