There is real comfort in being quiet.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.