I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

It feels great to read but greater to write.

What I now ask of you is considered treason

We need people to think. We need people to think better. We need people to think more. Reflection is a valuable tool, but only in the way to drive a way forward.

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Cook, at that moment in time, I would have sold my body for a mocha latte

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.