Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

Those who expect opportunities to happen will never get as far as those who make opportunities happen.

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The more we do, the more we can do.

You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.