The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make, ” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant, ” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do.” -Joseph Dahr.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.