Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

Desire creates its own object.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?