Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Never allow reality to get in the way of your dreams.

Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.

Too much rouge is a sign of despair.

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

I love talking about baserunning.