Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

I never met a man I could marry.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.