Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.