Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

None of my friends smoke. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

What I do to take care of my heart is exercise and try to eat healthy.

I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.