For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?

Failure is a great teacher

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.