Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

A good leader makes a good follower.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

If you can’t manage the future, you don’t have a future.

My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.

Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.