Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

It feels wonderful when you fly with hopes and dreams.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.