Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

What you do consistently shapes your life.

I hear you in the morning sun.

Failure doesn't means falling down

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

Labor is no disgrace.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.