God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.