Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

I want my children to see me first every morning, so I wake up at 5 and make sure to shower and exercise before they get up.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

Leadership is having a point of view.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.