Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.”“Oh, you found someone else? With less money?

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.