That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

A foreclosure does not define you financially.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.