The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

Some seek and find peace in life

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage.

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.