If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.

Some people are like swings...They give us an exciting thing to do for a while..Thereafter leave us alone, dizzy and not very far ahead in life...

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.