No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.

I feel like people are not cut and dry, in real life. Some people do cheat, but it doesn't mean that they don't love. Sometimes in movies, it's one or the other.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.