If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Told you, Rose. Get too close to the sun, and you'll burn." -Edward Elric

I still don't like going to bed alone.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.