Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Want is an empty void — your real value is full and abundant.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

It is funny what a year can do.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

I just try to be relax, because I'm always been a relaxed person.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.