Everyone has the spark of greatness

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.

My father started me singing in church.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.