There seemed nothing to do but live.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Find the joy and peace in and around you. It is a choice not a condition or destination.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.