Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.