Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

I'm not interested until I see their execution.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.