Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.