In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night, in the voice of the ocean, in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul.

Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.