Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

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.

An uneducated heart competes, a half educated heart cooperates but enlightened heart serves

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

I think I am an adult.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.