Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.