The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?"Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

Time is the king of men.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.