I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.