Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.