Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Designer of information superhighways need to take the occasional stroll down memory lane.

Your blessings far outnumber your troubles.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.

What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.